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[Alexandr Korol]

that we live in, highlight this to me? It made it so that whenever I walked down the street, I would see men wearing rings on their ring fingers, on both the left and right hands. These rings were oval-shaped, or they had no stone, or a stone, but it was a cabochon stone — smooth and oval. This bothered me, and I felt that I absolutely needed this. I had to have it. So I started going to all kinds of stores, even went into Tiffany’s, and I went everywhere. I was even ready to buy a ring from Tiffany’s and resize it later. There was a very expensive ring with onyx for 2000 bucks, just an onyx ring. But it was at least similar to what I wanted, with a cabochon stone, it was oval, and it was small enough for me. But at that time, I just didn’t understand where this came from, how it was made, I didn’t know the world of jewelers. And once I asked a man, I said:

– Where did you get this?
– Oh, they made it for me.

Those who understand stones, and those who know the meaning behind them, they order them for themselves — they find the stone and have it custom-made.

So I realized that I needed to have these stones custom-made, not just buy them somewhere — I thought, okay. And I had this fixation that I needed these stones. I told Big Alexander about it. He said:

– Yes, one stone needs to be red, and the other black. One of the most expensive ones you can afford.
– Okay.

And so I started looking for these stones for myself – that’s what also opened up for me in New York. But in New York, it’s very strange, why people reacted the way they did. My heart really switched on. I listened to music, watched all the films about love, remembered my childhood, love, childhood, and everything warm. Everything was so, you know, like childlike love. That was the kind of frequency, if I can call it that. And again, this is also, in essence, nature leading me somewhere, and later I looked at myself from the outside, studied myself, and asked questions: why was I dressed this way,